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Causalgia

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Intense burning pain and sensitivity to the slightest vibration or touch, usually in the hand or foot, at a site some distance removed from a wound that has healed.

This phenomenon was first described in 1872 by the American neurologist Silas Weir Mitchell (1829-1914)

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